Ground cover plants offer a host of benefits in the garden, but perhaps most important is their ability to suppress weed growth. But what are the best ground cover plants to prevent weeds?

The following are her favorite ground cover plants and her tips to prevent weeds from growing: We'd all love to reduce the amount of work we have to do in the garden, especially when it comes to ...

Here are a few thoughts on how to manage the weeds in those fields prior to seeding a cover crop. If you are conventional tillage, tilling the field for weed management won’t be a major setback ...

As a result, some organic farmers are turning to cover crops for weed control. Cover crops are planted after harvest as an in-between crop. Cover crops improve the soil with living roots that ...

Once the lurking weed seeds have been taken care of, you can begin installing the plugs. Since groundcover plugs can be expensive, many gardeners will try to stretch each flat to cover as much ...

Of course, Adam and Eve could ... attractive weed. Novice gardeners often mistake it for clover, because of its shamrock foliage. It also has the look of an ornamental ground cover, due to its ...

“From a single plant to a crop they couldn’t harvest,” he said. Cover crops can help control weeds. The more biomass left on top of the soil, the less chance weeds have to germinate and gro ...

Jane Hartline, a volunteer on the education and communications committee of the 4-County Cooperative Weed Management Area, wrote recently about the problem of aggressive ground covers.

Weed barrier fabric can solve the problem but it can also be expensive to do, especially if you have a lot of space to cover. But thankfully one woman has devised a cost-effective way to stop ...

Q: We replaced our grass with Kurapia, but the weeds were overwhelming! Do you have any suggestions? A: When planting plugs to establish a ground cover, the secret to success is proper ground ...